Photographs from Tahiti by the Late Colonel Stuart-Wortley

Book Description

N.p: n.p, c. 1891. Spine a bit faded, some rubbing to spine and edges of covers, else fine. Small quarto. Illustrated with 25 autotype photographs limp green calf, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt Colonel Archibald Henry Plantagenet Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) was born in Wortley, Yorkshire. He first took up photography in Africa in 1853 while in the army and began exhibiting portraits and dramatic "instantaneous" seascapes in 1862, the same year he was elected as a member of Photographic Society of London. From 1874 he marketed his own photographic plates through his Uranium Dry Plate Company. He is recognized as the author of one of a number of "dry" collodion processes in the 1960s and 70s. Stuart-Wortley played a pivotal role in the early history of British photography as an innovator, promoter, and practitioner of the medium.In 1880 he travelled in the South Seas and fell in love with Tahiti; the book Tahiti: A Series of Photographs ... with letterpress by Lady Brassey was illustrated with collotypes from that journey. The above volume contains the same images in "autotype" (an early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment) photographs and show scenes of landscapes, of villages, of people in Tahiti .

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